Improving turn around time when building Java EE apps

Question

One troubling aspect of building Java EE applications is the turn around time for the edit, compile, deploy process. I tried using Jetty but even that has some problems after making several edits you will usually run into a memory error.

At the moment I use Netbeans and I can see edits to the presentation layer without redeployment but when making changes to the model then a full rebuild is necessary and there could be some problems.

What are some recommendations for improving this aspect of the process?

Answer 1

Troubling? Really? How long are your projects?

I think that Spring dm Server might start making in-roads with its OSGi technology. It keeps deployments modular, and you can hot deploy/undeploy individual modules.

Answer 2

You could use JavaRebel